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Cheese 'could reduce diabetes risk'
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From The Telegraph
London, UK
24 July, 2012
Cheese 'could reduce diabetes risk'
Scientists say the chances of developing type two diabetes could be 12 per cent lower for cheese lovers.
Healthy eaters may try to avoid cheese, but new research suggests it could actually ward off diabetes.
The chance of developing type 2 diabetes, a condition often linked with obesity, could be reduced by around 12 per cent by regularly snacking on cheese, scientists said.
Although high in saturated fat, it may be rich in types of the fat that could be good for the body, they believe.
Fatty foods have long been thought to raise the risks, but uncertainty about the role of dairy products such as milk, butter, cheese and yogurt, has continued.
Most other dairy foods did not have the same beneficial effect as cheese, with the possible exception of yoghurt, the research found.
Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of the condition and occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin for it to function properly.
Symptoms can be controlled by eating a healthy diet and monitoring your blood glucose level, but sufferers may also need to take insulin medication.
The findings on the effect of cheese, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, come from one of the largest ever studies to look at the role of diet in health.
One reason why cheese lovers may be at less risk of diabetes could be that the fermentation process triggers some kind of reaction that protects against diabetes and heart problems, the researchers said.
But the charity Diabetes UK warned against eating more cheese until the results were confirmed in other studies.
Dr Iain Frame, director of research, said: “It is too simplistic to concentrate on individual foods.
“We recommend a healthy balanced diet, rich in fruit and vegetables and low in salt and fat.
“This study gives us no reason to believe that people should change their dairy intake in an attempt to avoid the condition.”
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9...betes-risk.html
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The amount and type of dairy product intake and incident type 2 diabetes: results from the EPIC-InterAct Study
Abstract
Background: Dairy product intake may be inversely associated with risk of type 2 diabetes, but the evidence is inconclusive for total dairy products and sparse for types of dairy products.
Objective: The objective was to investigate the prospective association of total dairy products and different dairy subtypes with incidence of diabetes in populations with marked variation of intake of these food groups.
Design: A nested case-cohort within 8 European countries of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study (n = 340,234; 3.99 million person-years of follow-up) included a random subcohort (n = 16,835) and incident diabetes cases (n = 12,403). Baseline dairy product intake was assessed by using dietary questionnaires. Country-specific Prentice-weighted Cox regression HRs were calculated and pooled by using a random-effects meta-analysis.
Results: Intake of total dairy products was not associated with diabetes (HR for the comparison of the highest with the lowest quintile of total dairy products: 1.01; 95% CI: 0.83, 1.34; P-trend = 0.92) in an analysis adjusted for age, sex, BMI, diabetes risk factors, education, and dietary factors. Of the dairy subtypes, cheese intake tended to have an inverse association with diabetes (HR: 0.88; 95% CI: 0.76, 1.02; P-trend = 0.01), and a higher combined intake of fermented dairy products (cheese, yogurt, and thick fermented milk) was inversely associated with diabetes (HR: 0.88; 95% CI: 0.78, 0.99; P-trend = 0.02) in adjusted analyses that compared extreme quintiles.
Conclusions: This large prospective study found no association between total dairy product intake and diabetes risk. An inverse association of cheese intake and combined fermented dairy product intake with diabetes is suggested, which merits further study.
http://www.ajcn.org/content/96/2/382.abstract
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